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Malware Miscellany, March 2008

  1. Greediest malicious program targeting banks
    As we move into spring, this category is taken by one modification of Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.zq, which targets 109 banks simultaneously – a huge rise on last month’s Banker.cji, which targeted 44 banks.

  2. Greediest malicious program targeting payment systems
    March’s winner in this category is Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.etk, which has its sights set on a comparatively modest three payment systems.

  3. Greediest malicious program targeting payment cards
    Another member of the Banker family, Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.enw takes the crown this month, targeting the users of four different payment systems at once.

  4. Stealthiest malicious program
    If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’ll know that malware packed with ten different packers is nothing rare. And this month gives us yet another example: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Delf.ain.

  5. Smallest malicious program
    Get your magnifying glasses out for this month’s winner – Trojan.BAT.FormatC.r which weighs in at a mere 16 bytes, but still to wipe your C: disk

  6. Biggest malicious program
    For the second month in a row this category is taken by a member of the Haradong family; in this case it’s Trojan.Win32.Haradong.fj, which weighs in at 305MB, 79MB larger than last month’s entrant.

  7. Most malicious program
    With the transition to spring, the leader in this category has changed. March’s winner is Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.gen, and given the nasty nature of the Rbot family, this comes as no surprise. The programs covered by this detection use a number of methods to disable a range of antivirus solutions.

  8. Most common malicious program in email traffic
    No changes here this month – once again we’ve got Email-Worm.Win32.Netsky.q leading, making up 37.39% of all infected mail traffic, slightly up on last month’s 36%.

  9. Most common Trojan family
    March’s winner is Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon – we detected a stunning 3381 modifications of this family in March!

  10. Most common virus/ worm family
    This category has something slightly new for March: Net-Worm.Win32.Kolab dominates this particular category with 35 modifications.

Malware Miscellany, March 2008

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